How To Change Pickups on Your Ibanez RG

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How To Change Pickups on Your Ibanez RG - Full Tutorial

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In this video you'll learn how to install new pickups on your loved RG to get the tone you always wanted from it. It doesn't require special tools or skills so it's a great project to get into the awesome world of guitar mods. Enjoy!
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@InspiringTracks Жыл бұрын

The second part of this video is now available! There you can learn how to replace all the circuit of your Ibanez using high quality parts, professional wiring and even some cool mods! check it out kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gst9p7WpsM3cZmg.html

@lazyguitarAF 2 ай бұрын

Hello inspiring Tracks. I bought a used guitar with modded pickups. Both Neck pickups are rated at 4.0K and 4.5K through cable. However when I read the components with a multimeter, I tapped Ground and Hot at the bridge/neck and is really 4K and 4.5K. However when I tap Hot and Bridge Tap in Ibanez 3SWLSP5 switch, I saw 8K and 9K N/B. Is there a miswiring perhaps? Edit : Its a 4-5 wire humbucker. And I read the wirings through the switch since its a burden to desolder.

@tallthom 4 ай бұрын

Super clear explanation of how to replace the pickups. Thank you for spending the time to make this video. I learned a lot.

@alternative444 2 жыл бұрын

Funny... I came here to see how to install new pickups on my Ibanez RG 570EX to replace the exact pickups you installed as an upgrade. Thanks for the video!

@davewilliams2405 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video as usual, very well put together and with great close up shots!

@InspiringTracks 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I really appreciate your feedback

@HidrodemolicionEPT 11 ай бұрын

Man, your guitar tone Is amazing! Greetings from México city.

@TheMeJustMe75 Жыл бұрын

The pickups you are putting in as an example are the ones I want to get rid of. I loved how they sounded over 20 years ago but now they just sound rough.

@motarski 8 ай бұрын

Great Video. Thank you for sharing. There are people like me with two left hands unfortunately when it comes to soldering stuff so we have to pay for a technician :)

@InspiringTracks 7 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it and there's nothing wrong with that, technicians also needs to eat lol

@ansmfella Жыл бұрын

Amazing work putting this together for us! An inestimable help. Thank you so much! 😎🎸

@InspiringTracks Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you found it helpful!

@D-8-Tone2 2 жыл бұрын

It is a really inspiring track/video! Gr8! Thx

@InspiringTracks 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it!!!

@ganjarseo Жыл бұрын

Very detailed tutorial; it is really helpful. Thanks!

@soundshack33 6 ай бұрын

The song sounds along like bad horsie

@alexanderpuente8552 2 ай бұрын

Are there specific type of humbuckers that are compatible with ibanez guitars? Or is it a universal size that fit in every guitar that uses humbuckers pickups?

@brandopiansay9557 Жыл бұрын

Good....tutorial easy to catch up...thanks.

@samersaimeh Жыл бұрын

Thank,s good work and absolute professional.

@InspiringTracks Жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you liked it!

@samersaimeh Жыл бұрын

I have marshal (dsl40c)...how can I belittled humming to get full pure sound...thanks .

@stevecolledge8355 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant

@InspiringTracks 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!!

@AntonioCavicchioni 2 жыл бұрын

Very useful!

@InspiringTracks 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!!

@jacksguitarplanet Жыл бұрын

Hi. This is very helpful. I have one question. Where does the black wire go that is soldiered to the tab on the left SIDE of the switch? Not one of the eight, but on the side. Is the a ground? I did notice that there are two black wires that exit a hole near the bridge. One goes to the claw. Is the other supposed to connect to the side of the switch? Right now I have it on the back of the volume pot with the other ground wires. Thanks

@michaelp8856 Жыл бұрын

Take a picture of your cavity with everything hooked up before disassembling

@pzdipuing 9 ай бұрын

Hello sir can i used emg pickup on my ibanez rg series guitar.Never change pickup before...

@thepresence1349 Жыл бұрын

Awesome 👍👏👏

@InspiringTracks Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@mindfever6285 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@InspiringTracks Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!!

@mindfever6285 Жыл бұрын

@@InspiringTracks did it significantly improve the sound quality?

@InspiringTracks Жыл бұрын

In my case yes, the stock pickups where too muddy for my taste. I know lots of people don't like the V8 and V7 pups but they are pretty decent in my opinion

@mwworkman Жыл бұрын

Great video. I know all of the bare wires are ground. But which white wire was soldered together with all of the bare wires to the pot?

@michaellleverino 4 ай бұрын

middle - single pickup

@Easystreet208 Жыл бұрын

So on my Ibanez RG350 i am going to a Bridge only Pick up ( dimarzio 100 Hot ) I am removing the Neck and middle pickup. Any recommendation on wiring for that? I would like to just have a volume knob and not use the switch and tone knob? Do I have to leave the switch Coil in for a ground? Then just wire up the humbucker 4 coil as a series connection?

@ashleyren22 Жыл бұрын

Noob question. I just picked up a 1998 RG220 to restore. Still learning all part names and components but what kinds of pickups will fit this guitar and give it a good clean tone? If anyone could give some advice that’d be awesome, thanks

@manny75586 2 жыл бұрын

I look forward to trying this and having to take another guitar to the luthier to fix my mistakes…no I will never learn. Haha

@Heartkiller999 Жыл бұрын

What kind of foam did you use?

@amrielkissner906 Жыл бұрын

The track should be called Naughty Pony

@heikkipt 4 ай бұрын

@waneboklyngdoh7950 2 жыл бұрын

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@dandresaldi Жыл бұрын

great video, I have a question, I'm changing the pickups of my Ibanez RG prestige that has VLX91 switch, I bought the Utopia pickups and the single coil middle pickup has 3 wires(red, black and bare) instead of the 2(black and white) that the True Velvet I'm taking out has. Can I assume the black should go to the same place the black from the true velvet was and then the red to where the white was? What should I do with the bare that the other pickup didn't have?

@InspiringTracks Жыл бұрын

To be 100% sure check the manufacturer website, they should have detailed schematics for all of their pickups. The bare should be shielding, you can solder it to the back of one of the pots to get a good ground connection

@dandresaldi Жыл бұрын

@@InspiringTracks thanks, first I connected everything like it was with the other pickups(I just left the bare going nowhere) and sounded great, then I soldered the bare to ground and nothing changed, I’m happy with the sound of the Utopia, specially that single coil sounds amazing on clean. This video was very helpful for my first DlY pickup change and now I want to do more, I will do a full makeover of an old Ibanez I have with the pickups I took of the prestige, I want to change potentiometers and install everything new , I already saw another of your videos where you do something similar 👍🏼

@aftermath844 Жыл бұрын

Evolution pickups???

@Lespaul13100 2 жыл бұрын

Hi! Great work! Listen , I have a Dragonfire Crusader pickup (humbucker) that I put in the bridge of my Ibanez 321 MH, and I don't think I connected the wires correctly. I reversed the green hot and the black ground ( I think that is the correct color codes), it sounded ok, but, I didn't solder the red and white coil split wires to the 5 way switch. Now the other tones ( meaning the other 4) don't sound good at all. How do I correct that. Any help would be great! Thx!

@manoeljonas7918 Жыл бұрын

what you think about the V8 and V7 pickups?

@cockers6682 Жыл бұрын

Total crap

@bcltdinc.8919 Жыл бұрын

Not sure how changing pickups had anything to do with removing your saddle and neck You just needed to take the strings out

@InspiringTracks Жыл бұрын

It's explained in the video itself...you don't need to, but it made my work a lot easier

@mo8755 2 жыл бұрын

The greater the blob , tge better the job 🤔

@InspiringTracks 2 жыл бұрын

Always

@samersaimeh Жыл бұрын

You used the same volume 500k or 100k,or you must change another k ohm.

@InspiringTracks Жыл бұрын

I used the same pots. The standard value for humbuckers is 500k

@samersaimeh Жыл бұрын

Ihave some buzzing in my ibanese (little),,,itried to earthing it ,it done but still little.....thanks alot ..

@dr.wild5371 4 ай бұрын

I know this is about wiring new pickups, but why didn't you take time to clean all the crap and grime off the body, inside the body and the pickups themselves. You should have taken time the to shield the pickup cavities. Unless you like playing really dirty guitars. I would have taken the time to clean the complete guitar, neck , frets everything while I had it apart. Unless you were doing this job for someone else. Then that cost. Bring in a dirty guitar leave with a dirty guitar. Come in clean leave clean.

@louis-jeanbraye9834 Жыл бұрын

@dariuszcislo6233 Жыл бұрын

To głupie, nie ma potrzeby demontażu gryfu i mostka. Poza tym autor filmu nie ma pojęcia jak należy pracować z lutownicą. Generalnie dużo niepotrzebnej pracy, można to zrobić szybciej i profesjonalnie bez konieczności demontażu całej gitary.